A colleague is interested in purchasing computers for structural biology.
On the CCP4 wiki Kay reports good results with core i7 940 processor in Dell desktops. Is i7 still a good choice? is it worth upgrading now to i7 960 (3.2 GHz vs 2.66, for + $467) or i7 980 (3.33 ghz and more L2 cache for + $999)? Any particular Dell model, disk configuration? Any recommendations for a linux NFS and NIS server that would have user's home directories and software installs for 20 - 30 linux and Mac workstations? In a building with 1GHz network. Any suggestions, success reports, or horror stories would be appreciated. Ed
